Effect of textured glass substrates coated with LPCVD-deposited SnO :F on amorphous silicon solar cells

Chowdhury, Amartya; Kang, Dong‐Won; Isshiki, Masanobu; Oyama, Takuji; Odaka, Hiroyuki; Sichanugrist, Porponth; Konagai, Makoto

doi:10.1016/j.solmat.2015.04.003

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“… 27 , 28 In addition to that, the electrochemical and structural stabilities of SnO 2 and its enhanced electrical conductivity make it suitable for electrocatalytic water splitting. 29 − 34 Wide band gap semiconductors are promising materials in terms of photocatalytic and electrocatalytic activities in water splitting hydrogen generation owing to their exceptional size dependency. 35 , 36 The charge-transfer mechanism in transition-metal ion-doped SnO 2 is predominantly governed by the chemical and electronic nature of the dopant and its concentration.…”

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Modified, Solvothermally Derived Cr-doped SnO₂ Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic and Electrochemical Water-Splitting Applications

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Cr-doped SnO 2 nanostructures with a dopant concentration ranging from 1 to 5% have been successfully prepared using low-temperature modified solvothermal synthesis. The as-prepared nanoparticles showed a rutile tetragonal structure with a rough undefined morphology having no other elemental impurities. The particle shape and size, band gap, and specific surface area of the samples were investigated by scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high-resolution TEM, UV–visible diffused reflectance spectroscopy, and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller surface area studies. The optical band gap was found in the range of 3.23–3.67 eV and the specific surface area was in the range of 108–225 m 2 /g, which contributes to the significantly enhanced photocatalytic and electrochemical performance. Photocatalytic H 2 generation of as-prepared Cr-doped SnO 2 nanostructures showed improved effect of the increasing dopant concentration with narrowing of the band gap. Electrochemical water-splitting studies also stressed upon the superiority of Cr-doped SnO 2 nanostructures over pristine SnO 2 toward hydrogen evolution reaction and oxygen evolution reaction responses.

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Modified, Solvothermally Derived Cr-doped SnO₂ Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic and Electrochemical Water-Splitting Applications

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“…Traditionally, tin oxide is doped to improve its expected properties by some dopants such as indium [17,18], antimony [19], palladium [20], cobalt [21] and fluorine. Depositing fluorine doped tin oxide thin films is usually done by spray pyrolysis [22], sputtering [23], sol-gel [24], and chemical vapor deposition (CVD), which in turn includes different variations such as low pressure CVD [25], plasma enhanced CVD [26], and atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition (AP-CVD) which is very productive and economic [27,28].…”

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Structural and Electrical Properties of SnO₂:F Thin Films Prepared by Chemical Vapor Deposition Method

Najafi

Rozati

2017

Acta Phys. Pol. A

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Fluorine doped tin oxide (FTO) thin films were deposited onto glass substrate at different substrate temperatures by a simple and inexpensive method of air pressure chemical vapor deposition. The substrate temperature was kept constant at about 500• C as the optimum temperature, and air was used as both a carrier gas and the oxidizing agent. A very simple method of characterization were carried on to investigate the electrical and structural properties of the prepared thin films. The electrical parameters variations showed that these parameters vary with substrate temperature ranging from an insulator thin film to a highly conductive layer. X-ray diffraction also revealed the structure to be polycrystalline at higher temperatures compared to amorphous structure for lower temperatures.

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“…Other reports showed an improved performance of amorphous silicon solar cells because the cell was fabricated with a multi textured (a combination of micro-and nano-textured surface) superstrate. In these cells, FF and J sc were achieved as 72.5% and 16.12 mA/ cm 2 , respectively [23].…”

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“…1. Device efficiencies for thin-film silicon solar cells of amorphous, microcrystalline silicon single junction and tandem (a-Si/μc-Si) junction solar cells [21][22][23][24][25][26][27]. (Reprinted with permission ① from ref.…”

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Present Status of Thin Film Solar Cells Using Textured Surfaces: A Brief Review

Park¹,

Iftiquar²,

Le³

et al. 2016

Transactions on Electrical and Electronic Materials

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This is a brief review on light trapping in Si based thin film solar cells with textured surfaces and transparent conducting oxide front electrodes. The light trapping scheme appears to be essential in improving device efficiency over 10%. As light absorption in a thin film solar cells is not sufficient, light trapping becomes necessary to be effectively implemented with a textured surface. Surface texturing helps in the light trapping, and thereby raises short circuit current density and its efficiency. Such a scheme can be adapted to single junction as well as tandem solar cell, amorphous or micro-crystalline devices. A tandem cell is expected to have superior performance in comparison to a single junction cell and random surface textures appears to be preferable to a periodic structures.

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Effect of textured glass substrates coated with LPCVD-deposited SnO :F on amorphous silicon solar cells

Cited by 26 publications

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Modified, Solvothermally Derived Cr-doped SnO₂ Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic and Electrochemical Water-Splitting Applications

Modified, Solvothermally Derived Cr-doped SnO₂ Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic and Electrochemical Water-Splitting Applications

Structural and Electrical Properties of SnO₂:F Thin Films Prepared by Chemical Vapor Deposition Method

Present Status of Thin Film Solar Cells Using Textured Surfaces: A Brief Review

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Effect of textured glass substrates coated with LPCVD-deposited SnO :F on amorphous silicon solar cells

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Modified, Solvothermally Derived Cr-doped SnO2 Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic and Electrochemical Water-Splitting Applications

Modified, Solvothermally Derived Cr-doped SnO2 Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic and Electrochemical Water-Splitting Applications

Structural and Electrical Properties of SnO2:F Thin Films Prepared by Chemical Vapor Deposition Method

Present Status of Thin Film Solar Cells Using Textured Surfaces: A Brief Review

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Modified, Solvothermally Derived Cr-doped SnO₂ Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic and Electrochemical Water-Splitting Applications

Modified, Solvothermally Derived Cr-doped SnO₂ Nanostructures for Enhanced Photocatalytic and Electrochemical Water-Splitting Applications

Structural and Electrical Properties of SnO₂:F Thin Films Prepared by Chemical Vapor Deposition Method